The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

http://youtu.be/O3o6soCBBhs
[Front-paged. -stabguy]

Like I promised Aurll... a video.

For this video, I wanted to to see what would happen in later memories in Bridewell prison if I killed all the guards and prisoners early on. As you can imagine, this takes some time (hence the sped up video... it appears I'm getting better at this). Some notes - white text is meant to be Ratonhnhaké:ton's inner monologue; yellow for actual speech.

First, I killed everyone on a "restart from checkpoint." Otherwise, the guards that escort you down the stairs are roaming around. If you restart the "steal the key" mission, these two guards don't spawn. Problem 1 solved.

Secondly, you have to manipulate the directions some guards are looking before killing others or you'll be detected. To do this, get them to push you. The guard on the bridge on the top floor can detect the kill on the second floor, that's why I changed floors there.

Third, to kill civilians in this game with no penalty, equip bare hands and lock onto them to strangle them... as you are in prison, you don't have to worry about the weapon thing. Once a few people die, the prisoners run around. This causes them to bunch at the stairs. (This was the first time the bunched on the lower stairs. In my previous attempts, they always bunched on the upper stairs). Just approach them, hit the lock button, and mash the attack button until you're content.

Finally, I wanted to show the prison after this occurs. None of the incapacitated guards nor prisoners respawn. It's eerie, because (although not in the video) the sound of them all is there, just not the character models. This makes it really easy to find Mason, though. In addition, it makes it really easy to find out who you are going to need to fight.

Only when you are in the fighting circle can you fight the thugs, as previously noted by aurll. One thing I haven't tried is to whistle lure a guard inside the future fighting area before incapacitating him. Then, maybe in the fighting ring later you can use your other fighting abilities against them... like picking up the gun (which I tried on all the other guns unsuccessfully). This could be interesting as you can loot all the guards bodies... maybe picking up some ammo (I don't remember right now).

I didn't show the next part of the mission because, sadly, it didn't work. The whole reason I did this was to see if the guards would be present on the way to Hickey's cell. They are. I guess this makes sense in hindsight, because whether they would respawn or not, it's a different part of the prison and I didn't have access to those guards previously. Oh well.

I'm happy with how this video turned out! To be honest, most of the time when the video and audio links up, it was a happy coincidence (like when the camera pans around Ratonhnhaké:ton at the end of the guitar solo). I did spend some time editing some parts though. This is the first time I've tried anything like this, with multiple audio tracks and video and trying to sync it all up. Plus, I got to use my favorite song from growing up: Enter Sandman, track #1 on Metallica's Black Album, if memory serves me. Hopefully you all enjoy it as much as I do!